Wittgenstein and Approaches To Clarity

Wittgenstein sought clarity for its own sake, and so avoided advocacy or system building, says Garver (philosophy, State U. of New York-Buffalo), but he himself strives to contribute greater clarity to the work of advocacy, exegesis, or criticism. He has gathered and revised, sometimes substantially, 14 essays previously published in journals or anthologies. They cover traditional clarity, contestable clarity, and Wittgenstein's clarity. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Newton Garver was a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo for thirty-four years.?Garver was a philosopher of language whose research and writing notably spoke to the work of Wittgenstein, as well as Derrida, Kant, Frege, Husserl, and other philosophers. His subject matter included epistemology, as as well as non-violence, politics, and speaking truth to power.?He was the author of four books, editor of two others, and he wrote scores of articles published in peer-reviewed journals and anthologies in his field.